St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-02-24

except the chief. brigador general and
sixteen lieutenants who belonged to the
army but were not assigned to regiments
Mr.. Harrison-Then the chief signal
officer and the sixteen lieutenants are not
to be transferred?
Mr.. Morgan-The amendment provides
that the service shall go on until the presi-
dent appoints chief of the bureau.
Mr. Miller--The transfer does not at all
affect the signal service corps Of the army.
Finally the vote was taken on the Sec
tion -
TRANSFERRING THE WEATHER SERVICE
of the signal service bureau (as amended),
and it was agreed to; yeas 80, nays Is. The
bill was then passed without dissent and a
conference was asked. The bill creates an
executive department to be known as the
department of agriculture and labor, with a
secretary aud assistant secretary. to be ap-
pointed by the president. by and with the
advice and consent of the senate. The sec
retary is to receive the same salary
as the heads of the other executive depart
ments, and the assistant secretary the same
salary as the assistant secretary of the
interior department. The bureau of labor
and the weather service of the signal service
bureau are to be transferred to the depart
ment of agriculture. The senate then took
up the
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA BILL.
Mr.. Mcpherson moved to postpone it till
tomorrow, and to proceed to consideration of
the house joint resolution for the investiga-
ton OF the Pacific railroad. The motion
was defeated, yeas 81, nays 81, as follows:
Yeas-Beck, Berry, Blackburn, Brown,
Call. Cockrell, Coke, Eustis, George, German,
Hampton, Hawes, Jones (Ark.), Kenna, Nc
Pherson, Maxey, Morgan, Payne. Plumb,
Pugh, Ransom, Salisbury, Vance, Van Wyck,
Vest, Wathall and Whiteham-27.
Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Blair, Cameron,
Cheney. Conger, Dawes, Dolph, Edmunds,
Evarts, Frye, Hall. Harrison, Hoar, Ingalls,,
Jones (Nev.), Mcmillan, Malone. Henderson,
Miller, Mitchell orr, Mitchell (Pa.), Morrill,,
Plat, Sabin, SAWYER, Sherman, spooner,
Tiler, Williams and Wilson Qa.)-31.
Mr.. Van Wyck suggested, in view
of the importance OF the matter,
that Friday next be designated for its con-
sideratlon. Mr.. Edmunds objected. Mr..
Hoar gave notice that he would tomorrow
ask the senate to assign time. probably
o'clock on Friday, for the consideration of
the Pacific railroad inquiry bill. Mr.. Frye
made an appeal to the senate to take up and
consider a message from the president Veto
ing bill that would allow arrearages of
pension to B. S. Hopkins,
A MAINE VOLUNTEER.
He described the case as a remarkable and
exceptional one. There were. he said, liv-
ing on farm in Maine in 1861, two boys,
one 16 years of age, the other 90. The
elder had just been married. The war
broke out. Full of the inspiration of pat
riotism there was controversy between
them which should enlist. Finally it was
decided that the young boy should start
first, and he enlisted. In two months the
elder boy enlisted and was killed. The
younger went to the front and remained
there sixteen months. Then he
was stricken with nervous disease
and was transferred to the invalid corps, in
which he remained till the close of the war.
He had no physical strength to work on the
farln and he returned to Washington, where
he was appointed clerk in the treasury
department. He was there six years. was
twice promoted, and was offered the chief
clerkshlp at $4,000 In the meantime he
had studied law and had passed his exam
ination and he declined the proffer, re-
signed his place i'll the treasury and COM
menced the practice of law. in which he
built up practice worth from $3 600 to
men of a man, six feet high, handsome in
person and with well cultured mind. Once
in while he was stricken with his old dis
ease. Early in 1878, i'll the streets of
Washington, he was stricken by it.
.rHE WAS CARRIED HOME
and for nine years never had stood on his
feet. They had been Zine years of terrible,
fearful pain, night and day. For two years
he could not lift a spoon to his mouth. One
night about two months ago he was carried
on a reclining chair into his (Mr. Frye's)
room and there he told his story. Congress
passed bill opening the door to him to
apply for arrearages, and this bill the presi-
dent vetoed because he had mott inform
alton which he (Mr. Frye now gave the
senate. The president said that this was
a dangerous door to open, but during the
whole two years that it was open under the
law, this man had not the power to avail
himself of it. After some further state
ments. including one by Mr.. Cockrell, that
the facts, if made to known to the pension
bureau, would have justified an allowance
of the arrearages of pension, and that if
they had been brought to the attention of
the president he would not have vetoed the
bill. the bill was passed over the veto
by vote of 55 to 6. The six nays were
Messrs. Beck, Berry. Blackburn, Coke,
Harris and Vance. The senate then adj
jOurned. f@, .is